On further thought I added to the idea.
From: blstuart_at_bellsouth.net <blstuart_at_bellsouth.net>
>In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204180631001.27156-100000_at_siconic.com>, Sellam
Ismai
>l writes:
>>How about calling it a Babbage?
>
>That was my thought as well, with possible runners up of
>the Zuse, the Aiken, the Eckert or the Mauchley.
>
>Brian L. Stuart
Why not use them all!
A box is Cubic_volume=HeightxWidthxDepth, so why not computers measured
in Zuse?
Zuse = VonNeuman x Eckart x Aiken x Mauchley
With the possible corrosponding dimensions in real terms of memory, speed,
storage, wordsize or some such.
Allison
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